Pin on Sky Cinema during daytime

sawfish

Is it a regulatory requirement for their to always be a pin during the daytime for Sky Cinema (Formerly called Sky Movies)???

I do not have any age restrictions in my settings however I am still being asked for a pin during the day.

icdg

I believe it's an Ofcom requirement in order for the 9pm watershed not to be applied.

sawfish

icdg wrote: »

I believe it's an Ofcom requirement in order for the 9pm watershed not to be applied.

Does Ofcom have jurisdiction over Republic of Ireland?

icdg

No, but it has jurisdiction over Sky Cinema, as its licenced in the UK.

sawfish

icdg wrote: »

No, but it has jurisdiction over Sky Cinema, as its licenced in the UK.

So there is no scope for a way around this to be provided for Irish customers only? Shame.

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sawfish, is your issue the inconvenience of having to enter your pin (which is fair, I find it irritating myself) or do you actually not know your pin, therefore not able to watch during the day?

If you don't know your pin, give Sky a call and they'll tell you what it is.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

sawfish, is your issue the inconvenience of having to enter your pin (which is fair, I find it irritating myself) or do you actually not know your pin, therefore not able to watch during the day?

If you don't know your pin, give Sky a call and they'll tell you what it is.

I thought it was always the last 4 digits of your sky viewing card?

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Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

I thought it was always the last 4 digits of your sky viewing card?

Could be. I've never bothered checking as it was written down next to the set when the box was installed.

sawfish

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

sawfish, is your issue the inconvenience of having to enter your pin (which is fair, I find it irritating myself) or do you actually not know your pin, therefore not able to watch during the day?

If you don't know your pin, give Sky a call and they'll tell you what it is.

I know my pin. Its the inconvenience

Basq

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

I thought it was always the last 4 digits of your sky viewing card?

I think it is by default, but can be changed..

sawfish

Basq wrote: »

I think it is by default, but can be changed..

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

I thought it was always the last 4 digits of your sky viewing card?

I'm with Eir anyway. Its just a pain on the odd occasion you want to flick through the movie channels during the day, not a big deal though

Skerries

Basq wrote: »

I think it is by default, but can be changed..

yeah I have mine changed to something easily rememberable

Cantona's Collars

First World problem having to press 4 buttons on a remote.

Better that,than kids watching stuff they shouldn't.

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zerks wrote: »

Better that,than kids watching stuff they shouldn't.

I have zero problem having to enter a pin, but this is such a f**king ridiculous point. Not everyone has kids, nor do they ever want kids, and if you've got kids monitor what they're doing on the TV/Internet - making childless people's life more inconvenient isn't the solution to your statement.

sawfish

zerks wrote: »

First World problem having to press 4 buttons on a remote.

Better that,than kids watching stuff they shouldn't.

The point is that even if you disabled parental controls in the settings, you still need to enter a pin for the sky movie channels!

Skerries

maybe just go on the age rating and watershed method

Cantona's Collars

We could go back to the old days and show 15 films after 9pm and 18 films after 10 or not at all. Remember ITV editing the likes of Die Hard?

Having a pin protection on movies is a small price to pay to be allowed see films aimed at a mature audience earlier in n the day rather than what went on before and having to wait until later in the night to see a film.

jones

This is something that bugs me too but its not a deal breaker :-)

Tilikum

zerks wrote: »

First World problem having to press 4 buttons on a remote.

Better that,than kids watching stuff they shouldn't.

What if your father has vascular dementia and he can't remember the pin?

You have no idea the problems some others do, don't make little of it.

sabat

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

sawfish, is your issue the inconvenience of having to enter your pin (which is fair, I find it irritating myself) or do you actually not know your pin, therefore not able to watch during the day?

If you don't know your pin, give Sky a call and they'll tell you what it is.

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Could be. I've never bothered checking as it was written down next to the set when the box was installed.

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I have zero problem having to enter a pin, but this is such a f**king ridiculous point. Not everyone has kids, nor do they ever want kids, and if you've got kids monitor what they're doing on the TV/Internet - making childless people's life more inconvenient isn't the solution to your statement.

That's about 2 years worth of daytime pin-entering inconvenience you just used complaining about it.

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sabat wrote: »

That's about 2 years worth of daytime pin-entering inconvenience you just used complaining about it.

:rolleyes:

Not once did I complain about entering a pin, so what exactly have I done to end up on your list of enemies sabat?